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In 14Q3, GDP volume contracted with 0.1% q-o-q. Investment acted as the largest drag on growth. In 2015, GDP volume is expected to grow slowly after three years of contraction, mostly on the back of foreign demand. Unemployment will remain high.

Like the rest of the eurozone, the Dutch economy will grow faster in 2015 than it did in the year just past. But growth will remain low, and unemployment high. Low inflation puts the ECB under increasing pressure to start large scale quantitative easing.

In the Outlook publication, Rabobank presents her yearly economic predictions for the coming year. The macroeconomic ‘Outlook 2015’ is published alongside the Thematic booklet ‘Prosperity in the new economic reality’.